
Ocean Visions Leadership
Leadership Team
The Leadership Team is an advisory body assembled to activate and mobilize the Ocean Visions Network. The team sets the overall strategic vision for the Network, establishes priorities, reviews progress and products, and facilitates collaboration and communication with external parties.

Jim Barry
Senior Scientist and Chair of the Research Division at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI)

Annalisa Bracco
Associate Chair for Research and Professor of Oceanography and Climate in the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at Georgia Tech



Debora Iglesias-Rodriguez
Professor of Biological Oceanography and chair of the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology at UCSB

Fiorenza Micheli
Co-Director of Stanford’s Center for Ocean Solutions and of Hopkins Marine Station, and the Professor of Marine Science at Stanford

Gary Mitchum
Professor of Physical Oceanography and the Associate Dean in the College of Marine Science at the University of South Florida


Rick Murray
Deputy Director and Vice President for Research at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Board of Directors

Fiorenza Micheli
Co-Director of Stanford’s Center for Ocean Solutions and of Hopkins Marine Station, and the David and Lucile Packard Professor of Marine Science at Stanford University

Julie Pullen
Partner and Chief Scientst at Propeller Ventures and Adjunct Research Scientist at Columbia Climate School